How to add a note to the LoanPeriod field in the IRFBook.html form

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How can I add a note to the LoanPeriod field in the IRFBook.html form?

Answer

In order to be able to add a note to the LoanPeriod field, you have to change two things:

You have to change the HTML code in IRFBook.html (or other form) like this (in this example I left the original code, but commented it out. You can remove it.):

<!--custom code from Dev that lets you add a note to the loanperiod, but if you only have one pickuplocation it will not show the pickuplocation field-->
      <#OPTION name="PickupLocation" selectedValue="<#CUSTOMIZATION name='DefaultPickupSite'>" headerText="<label for='PickupLocation'><strong><span class='req'>*</span><span class='<#VALIDATION name=ERRORPickupLocation>'>Pickup Location for Physical Items</span></strong>" footerText="<br /></label>">
 
      <div id="LoanPeriodDiv">
          <#OPTION name="LoanPeriod" id="LoanPeriod" isSharedListItem="False" SitePeriods="True" headerText="<label for='LoanPeriod'><strong><span class='req'>*</span><span class='<#VALIDATION name='ERRORLoanPeriod'>'>Loan Period for Physical Items</span><br /><span class='note'>Physical items may be checked out from the reserve desk (above) for the time period you select here. Loan Period does not apply to electronic reserves.</span></strong>" footerText="<br /></label>">
      </div>

<!--original code for pickuplocation and loanperiod
      <#OPTION name="PickupLocation" selectedValue="<#CUSTOMIZATION name='DefaultPickupSite'>" headerText="<label for='PickupLocation'><strong><span class='<#VALIDATION name=ERRORPickupLocation>'>Pickup Location for Physical Items</span></strong>" footerText="<br /></label>">

      <div id="LoanPeriodDiv"><#OPTION name="LoanPeriod" isSharedListItem="False" SitePeriods="True" headerText="<label for='LoanPeriod'><#ERROR Name='ERRORLoanPeriod'><strong><span class='<#VALIDATION name='ERRORLoanPeriod'>'>Loan Period for Physical Items</span></strong>" footerText="<br /></label>"></div>
-->

And you also have to edit the defaultLoanPeriodControl in the aresajax.js file which is in the js folder, like this (this should be line 155 in the file):

var _defaultLoanPeriodControl = $('<label for="LoanPeriod"><strong><span class="req">*</span>Loan Period for Physical Items<br /><span class="note">Physical items may be checked out from the reserve desk (above) for the time period you select here. Loan Period does not apply to electronic reserves.</span></strong><select name="LoanPeriod" id="LoanPeriod"></select><br></label>');